Breakfast wine

I actually like Moscato as a brunch wine. It's slightly carbonated, slightly sweet, soft and fruity and goes well with everything from pastries to omlets so I get the inference. Bricco del Sol is one of my favorites at about $15 USD per bottle.

Bi!! wrote on Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:29:34 -0700 (PDT):

That does seem a little more likely and "brunch wine" is a good term tho' I've not seen it before.

Jim, I think that it's a bit tongue-in-cheek. I've heard a female winemaker in IIRC Irouleguy in the French Pyrenees describe one of her wines as her "breakfast wine," by which she meant (I think) that it was light and uncomplicated. Maybe they're more serious than I realize, though. (Sounds like a bad idea to me, too)

Mark Lipton

Some folks like Champagne with brunch or champagne drinks like Mimosa or Bellini.

Could be mistranslation of dejeuner into breakfast (which is literal but incorrect), rather than the modern translation which would be into lunch.

Nils

Some like Champagne with conventional breakfast, at least when it is provided as an no additional charge selection.

Long ago, in the last days of the big prop airplanes, American Airlines had a Mercury Service for long flights. This was still when you usually walked out to the airplane and up steps to get on. They rolled out a red carpet from the airport door to the steps to the plane. I once was on an early morning Mercury Service flight from the mid US to NYC. You had a large choice of breakfast food available soon after the airplane departed. You could start with the usual juices or Champagne poured from a regular sized bottle. I noticed thal likely over 1/2 of the people selected Champagne. That is the only time I ever had Champagne for breakfast.

Those were the golden days of air travel. You did not have security checks and were not treated like a common criminal when you traveled by air. I now travel by air only as a last resort, because the service is now so user unfriendly. They could at least issue air travel identity cards and put a few armed guards on flights so that the travelers with identity cards would not have to stand in line and be groped by security guards. Of course this would cost some money, so why forego a little profit so that travelers are not mistreated.